Hard Mated (Shifters Unbound, #3.5) by Jennifer Ashley

Hard Mated (Jennifer Ashley)

SUMMARY

A short novel of the Shifters Unbound series. Spike, a wildcat Shifter and the champion fighter of Shiftertown, is stunned when Myka, the best friend of a dying human woman, announces that Spike has fathered a cub. What's more, the mother is giving the boy to Spike to protect and raise.

Myka, who'd been raised by an abusive stepfather, is not sure that a wild fighter named Spike is the best man to bring up the cute little jaguar cub. She goes to Shiftertown to check out Spike, and finds that the man behind the name is a lonely Shifter who's lost most of his family and is a fierce caretaker to those he has left.

Spike is torn between the cub and his duties as tracker to the Shiftertown leader, and begs Myka, the only person who understands, to help him. He starts to like the sassy Myka, a horse trainer who's not afraid of working with animals, even if they're wildcats who turn into humans.

When Spike's job puts his cub and Myka in danger, Spike is forced to choose between those to whom he's pledged his loyalty and his need to protect the woman and cub he's come to love.

 

MY REVIEW

Spike is a tattooed guy who likes fighting at an illegal fight club and Myka is the girl who meets after one of his fights and falls in love with.

This would have been a simple love story. But Spike happens to be a jaguar shifter and the night he meets Myka he also discovers that he has a four years old son. This makes things a bit complicated.

This is the story of Spike, his son Jordan and his sweetheart Myka and how they become family.

The book also describes internal power fights for the shifters' hierarchy. Liam's position is being compromised and a new enemy appears.

Another very good addition to this great series.